I have said this in a number of places already, but just wanted to get the community opinion of the fairness of the initial distribution of MAX.
Contrary to the popularly held view at the moment, I think that Maxcoin has had one of the most impressively fair initial distributions of any altcoin to date. A lot of the complaints I have seen are coming from people who are butthurt about their lack of the prerequisite skills to undertake basic programming tasks such as compiling the minerd from source or using a simple command line wallet. I’m sorry you do not understand these things, but there are LOTS of people who do. Who’s problem is this exactly?
The fact that there was so much initial hype about the coin ensured that the ‘easiest’ blocks were distributed far more fairly than even the early bitcoin blocks were. So nobody can honestly say that this was an unfair launch. While some people are complaining bitterly that a keccak GPU miner was available almost right from the start, again… this is also just a release of butthurt by the people who thoiught they could take a bigger slice of the pie without having the computing resources to deserve such a share of the block reward. Nobody ever said that this coin was supposed to be a GPU free zone. Lots of people have GPU’s so it’s reasonable to assume that some clever person is going to figure out fairly quick how to use it to churn out SHA-3 hashing power. It’s the really capital intensive ASIC infrastructures that can prove too much of a risk to the decentralised nature of the protocol, NOT gpu’s.
So overall, i think Maxcoin was in fact a reasonably (if not very) successful launch, and MAX has signifigant potential behind it. Compared to the bitcoin launch or other premined alts I don’t know what some people are complaining about. Sometimes you have to think for yourself and learn how to ignore the internet TROLLS who just want to sink the price lower so they can buy in!
TROLLS, I get it, you are all much butthurt. I’m so very sorry for you but please stop TROLLING those of us who are actually contributing to the Maxcoin project. No amount of you yammering at us is going to make the price sink any lower.